Executives Call for Deep Emission Cuts to Combat Climate Change (Published 2021)
The smokestack of a coal-fired power plant in Independence, Mo., earlier this year. Some of the nation’s largest companies are calling for the United States to double its targets for cutting planet-warming emissions.Credit...Charlie Riedel/Associated Press WASHINGTON — More than 300 businesses, including Google, McDonalds and Walmart, are pushing the Biden administration to nearly double the Unite
More than ever, our clothes are made of plastic. Just washing them can pollute the oceans.
Brian Resnick was Vox’s science and health editor and is the co-creator of Unexplainable, Vox’s podcast about unanswered questions in science. It’s no secret that too many of the plastic products we use end up in the ocean. But you might not be aware of one major source of that pollution: our clothes. Polyester, nylon, acrylic, and other synthetic fibers — all of which are forms of plastic — are n
EU bans plastic waste from being shipped to developing countries
The European Union has banned all non-recyclable plastic waste being shipped to developing nations from 1 January. The large quantity of plastic sent to the Global South is often not being properly treated. A lot of this waste ends up either in landfill, the ocean, or being incinerated because these countries often don’t have the capacity to sustainably treat the waste. Under the new rules, only ‘
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